The EU Attention Report
Which EU communications actually reach readers
We score every digest item by its within-week percentile rank to remove audience-size effects, then aggregate by institution, category, and story thread. Wikipedia pageview deltas sanity-check whether the wider public was paying attention too.
September 2026 edition: 46 items, n ≥ 5 per bucket.
Institutions
avg within-week percentileEuropol tops the list (70.8 from n=5) but the strongest reach at scale is European Investment Bank (48.9 across 13 items).
Europol
n=5 · top quartile share 40% · 252 views
Court of Justice of the European Union
n=7 · top quartile share 28.6% · 332 views
European Investment Bank
n=13 · top quartile share 23.1% · 618 views
Categories
avg within-week percentileRights & Society outperforms by a wide margin (52.6 percentile), while EU Policy & Law sits 5.3 points behind. The gap is the actionable signal: readers reward one category, not the other.
Rights & Society
n=5 · top quartile share 40%
Security & Foreign Affairs
n=9 · top quartile share 22.2%
Economy & Trade
n=14 · top quartile share 21.4%
EU Policy & Law
n=11 · top quartile share 18.2%
Story threads
avg percentile, Wikipedia deltaCJEU Rulings Impact ranks first at 60.6 percentile. Wikipedia deltas are mostly flat or negative across the top threads, meaning these stories landed with our readers but did not spike wider public interest.
n=6 · no Wikipedia mapping
Top 20 items
highest week-percentileEIB backs Lithuanian port for defence & clean energy (European Investment Bank) leads the period with 81 views, scoring 100.0 percentile in its publication week.
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1.EIB backs Lithuanian port for defence & clean energy100.0
2026-09-16 · European Investment Bank · 81 views
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3.Advocate General on Combined Application of Social Policy Rule94.4
2026-09-07 · Court of Justice of the European Union · 54 views
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4.EMA Launches Pilot for Alternatives to Animal Testing89.5
2026-09-02 · European Medicines Agency · 58 views
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6.DPC Final Decision on Irish Health Service Data Inquiry89.5
2026-09-04 · European Data Protection Board · 58 views
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8.Advocate General on Data Retention & Privacy84.2
2026-09-05 · Court of Justice of the European Union · 54 views
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9.ECB publishes Q2 2026 supervisory banking stats83.3
2026-09-16 · European Central Bank · 80 views
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11.EUAA Reports Decline in Asylum Applications77.8
2026-09-12 · European Union Agency for Asylum · 51 views
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12.Court Clarifies Sanctions on Company Control73.7
2026-09-04 · Court of Justice of the European Union · 52 views
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17.EIB Global & Banco do Brasil Fund Women Entrepreneurs57.9
2026-09-01 · European Investment Bank · 49 views
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18.Health Data Breach Fines French Hospital55.6
2026-09-11 · European Data Protection Board · 47 views
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19.Court Judgments on Agriculture55.6
2026-09-09 · Court of Justice of the European Union · 47 views
Methodology
Every digest item is scored against other items published in the same calendar week using
PostgreSQL's PERCENT_RANK(). A score of 100 means the item was the most-read of its week,
0 means it was the least-read. This normalisation removes audience-growth effects, so a top story from
a small-audience week is treated identically to a top story from a high-audience week.
Each report covers one full calendar month and only publishes once that month has ended. Because items are ranked against others from the same week, pieces of similar age are always compared head to head, so the ranking holds up even right after the month closes. Buckets (institutions, categories, threads) are only ranked once they contain at least 5 items, to avoid noise from one-off viral pieces.
Wikipedia pageview deltas compare the average daily views of a topic's English Wikipedia article during the thread's active window vs the 30 days immediately before. A large positive delta is a sanity check that broader public interest moved in the same direction as our reader engagement, not just euroneo's small audience.
Caveats: this measures reader engagement among an audience that opted into EU coverage. It is a proxy for broader public attention, not a direct measurement. Translation availability, feature image presence, starring, and digest position all confound the signal somewhat.